Record Stores​by Bernd Jonkmanns

​The vinyl record has been on the market for over 65 years now, but there has not yet been a photo documentation series published about record stores.

The book „Record Stores“ has nearly 400 pages with more than 500 Colorphotographs from 33 cities including a 6 pages register with 200 record store addresses and webpages – a size similar to a 10’’ vinyl, this 27 x 27 cm hardcover printed byseltmann+sohne.

If your record store is represented in this book, you can also order the book for resale using the customary bookseller discountavailable directly from the publisher seltmann+sohne Berlin, starting in August 2015

Since 2009 the photographer Bernd Jonkmanns from Hamburg has been working on a photo documentation about the culture of record stores. When Jonkmanns started the project in 2009 he thought that there won’t be many record stores left within a few years. Over the past decades many Record Stores have vanished, but vinyl records have made a rapid comeback among music loversall over the world. Thus, new stores opened up in big cities like Berlin, Brussels, Paris, and Los Angeles, preserving the phenomenon “record store” as an expression of youth culture.

Over the last six years he travelled all over the world to 30 cities on five continents to photograph over 160 record stores, the store owners, the buyers, and the people who work there. His photos show their love and passion for vinyl, cd, and buying music in a store. This is what they all share and what makes the specific atmosphere of such stores.Jonkmanns found great stores on all continents in cities like Los Angeles, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Paris, London, Brighton, Stockholm, Rio de Janeiro, Oslo, Amsterdam, Sydney and even in Hobart, Tasmania.